Grindelwald railway station

Grindelwald railway station (German: Bahnhof Grindelwald) is a railway station in the village and municipality of Grindelwald in the Swiss canton of Bern. The station is the terminus of both the Berner Oberland Bahn (BOB), whose trains operate services to Interlaken Ost, and of the Wengernalpbahn (WAB), whose trains operate to Kleine Scheidegg via Grindelwald Grund.^[1][4]

Grindelwald
The station in 2012
General information
Location	Dorfstrasse Grindelwald, Bern Switzerland
Coordinates	46°37′27.696″N 8°1′59.916″E
Elevation	1,034 m (3,392 ft)
Owned by	Berner Oberland-Bahnen [de]
Line(s)	Bernese Oberland line Wengernalp line
Distance	19.1 km (11.9 mi) from Lauterbrunnen 19.4 km (12.1 mi) from Interlaken Ost [1]
Train operators	Berner Oberland-Bahnen [de] Wengernalpbahn AG
Connections	Autoverkehr Grindelwald bus lines[2]
Other information
Fare zone	821 (Libero)[3]
History
Opened	1 July 1890 (1890-07-01)
Electrified	17 March 1914 (1914-03-17)
Services
Preceding station Jungfraubahn AG Following station Terminus Wengernalp Railway Grindelwald Grund towards Kleine Scheidegg Preceding station Berner Oberland-Bahnen AG Following station Grindelwald Terminal towards Interlaken Ost Bernese Oberland Railway Terminus
Location

The BOB and WAB lines use different gauges, and there is no physical connection between them. However the trains operate from adjacent platforms within the same station. Trains of both lines enter the station from its western end. Counter-intuitively, the WAB commences its ascent to Kleine Scheidegg by descending steeply to Grindelwald Grund, where it reverses and commences its climb.^[1]

Services

As of the December 2020 timetable change,^[update] the following rail services stop at Grindelwald:^[5]

• Regio:
  • half-hourly service to Interlaken Ost.
  • hourly to half-hourly service to Kleine Scheidegg.

Post bus services connect Grindelwald station to other local places, including a service to Meiringen over the Grosse Scheidegg Pass, using a road closed to most other traffic.^[6]

See also

• Rail transport in Switzerland